
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Ethics and Christianity
Most Renaissance thinkers who are fundamentally believers try to point out that there are two aspects which are slightly in tension with each other in Aristotle's thought. They recognize that the ethics is actually grounded on the here and now rather than the hereafter. But they don't deny that in the end, this is a piece that fits into the general story of Christianity so that the afterlife is something that does exist.
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